Quotes About Confusion

Sometimes there were lots of explanations for why something had happened; sometimes there was no explanation at all.

I understand Jesus perfectly," Mama tells me. "I just don't understand Christians, and I don't think he would either.

Everything felt wrong, lopsided. I knew from the weird fuzzy humming inside my head.

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.

I am freaked out, Jace. I'm freaked out because for some reason, I can't stop thinking about you. I can't stop thinking about how it feels to kiss you, about how happy I was when we were going to be together, about how even though I feel like I should hate you, my heart knows that I don't.

I couldn't tell you how I felt before talking to Ava, and I felt like I couldn't talk to Ava until she got back. But then last night, there you where, and you looked so beautiful, and I couldn't stop myself anymore. But I shouldn't have done it, I should have stopped it, I should have put you first. I was trying to do the right thing, but all I did was fuck everything up. With you, with Ava, with your friendship...

When I got to the house about an hour ago, James took one look at me and said, "Damn, girl, your parents put out some good product." I think it was a compliment, but I'm not quite sure.

Eisenhauser conundrum

So as a seventh grader, no, you weren't friends with people you didn't like. But sometimes you also weren't friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didn't make any sense if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. That's where the sadness came in.

Just because you're into Kate...well, it doesn't necessarily mean you're gay. Although it's okay if you are. But if that's what's worrying you...' Ariel sighed. 'God. It shouldn't be so hard to talk about this stuff. All I'm saying is maybe you're gay and maybe you're not. Maybe you're bi. Or maybe it's totally a Kate thing. Maybe you'd want to be with her whether she was a girl or a boy.' I blinked. I didn't know if what she said made things better or worse.

I didn't know what I thought, other than that nothing was easy anymore and no matter what I did, things got messed up.

That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.

It should come as no surprise that this was so, that after years of illness my remission on that first drugged day – confusing, yes, portending loss, yes – was also a blessing, pure and simple. No, not a blessing, a redemption, both bright and blinding, heaven opening me up, letting me in. Good morning.

he confused Behaim's rendition with that of another Nuremberg mapmaker, Johannes Schöner, a professor of mathematics who

You need clear thinking to prevent an invasion of Alien Parasites, and to battle them. The 'reality' of Las Vegas, Hollywood, Haute Couture, politics, pornography, advertising, supermarket tabloids, are all false realities designed to deceive and confuse you with what is truly authentic. They also weaken your mind, because these false realities hypnotize you. You mind becomes weak and passive, and so therefore you have no mental defenses against the mind parasites.

who had thought she was having

Everyone who dies out there dies of confusion.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

In any economic or political crisis, one thing is certain. Many learned experts will prescribe many different remedies

How did you explain to someone—how did you explain to a child, a child you loved—that someone they adored was not to be trusted? She

Most? What does that mean?

When she spoke of Pauline Hawthorne, her tone was half the adoration of a schoolgirl for a crush, half the adoration of a devotee for a saint. It had not been clear, at first, that it would turn out that way.

Sadie eyed him, hands on hips. Bird, she said, with infuriating pity, you don't understand anything, so you?